Belle Linsky

[5] With her husband she owned 19 percent of the stock of the Swingline corporation, based in New York City at the time, which they sold to American Brands Inc. in 1970 for $210 million.

She was treasurer of Swingline at the time of the sale and Jack Linsky was inventor, president, and chairman.

[8] In 1965, the Linskys endowed for $1 million a pavilion that bears their names at the Beth Israel Medical Center in Manhattan.

[3][8] She and her husband, Jack Linsky, started collecting art during The Great Depression.

[1][9] The bulk of which is housed in the 3,980 square-foot Jack and Belle Linsky Galleries[10][11] at the museum.